''Electrocrania'' is an extinct genus of micropterigid moth. It is known from two species found in

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...

aged

Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...

. The genus was originally described by

Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov ( rus, Николай Яковлевич Кузнецов; May 23, 1873 in Saint Petersburg – April 8, 1948 in Leningrad) was a Russian Empire and Soviet entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist, since 191 ...

in 1941. The genus was subsequently synonymised with ''

Micropterix ''Micropterix'' is a genus of small primitive metallic moths, in the insect order (biology), order lepidoptera within the family (biology), family Micropterigidae. The name was Species description, raised by the German entomologist, Jacob Hübne ...

'', until a second species was described in 2015, which restored it as a distinct genus.

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* † † Fossil Lepidoptera Baltic amber Fossil taxa described in 1941 Prehistoric insect genera {{paleo-Lepidoptera-stub